Jes Stafford
Town Hall, Fletcher, NC – Topping Off
Setting Steel at the Town Hall Project
Recently, we met a major milestone with the Fletcher Town Hall project when Cooper Construction set the cupola atop the roof structure, finishing the highest piece of building. Currently, this is the largest construction administration project with Modus Operandi Design.
It is exciting to see the progress so I wanted to share a little of this with you.
Check out this short slideshow showing the progress from the initial steel structure to the topping-off.
The new Town Hall at the Heart of Fletcher is a $9.7 million project. Three floors totalling 25,000-square-feet will house the police department, council chambers, administrative offices, and conference rooms.
The Role of Visionary Interlude – Mexico City Earth-Scraper
Why do architects work up and present grand un-built concept projects? They are entertaining. They are inspiring. They exercise one’s ability to solve problems, develop solutions, and defend ideas, especially during tough times where there are spare hours over the drawing board. There is unrealized value that builds on the inspiration. It would be fantastic to know how many people saw the article linked below, and were inspired to the point of actually improving their life by pursuing a relatively daunting project like the earth-scraper, where architects designed a mostly transparent and entirely underground 65-story building 300 metres below Mexico City’s Main Square (Zócalo Capitalino).
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Blueprints – the instructions for building a design.
So, what is MODBlog going to be? I have pondered this more than many times since we launched Modus Operandi Design, PLLC.
I have certain frustrations for modern policies, politics, and posturing that go into making a great piece of architecture. I also value their place in providing public safety and welfare with artistic value. The balance of frustration with and acceptance of the policies, politics, and posturing is only one example of the dance that life as an architect has taught me. It is a dance of compromise, empathy, and insight. Compromise is building the vision within the project’s means. Empathy is realizing the vision is often that of the client, and not the glossy dream of the designer. Insight discovers the clients’ core project qualities and prepares the glossy dreams for construction.
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